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fa_jing
01-13-2003, 02:36 PM
Let's say you start in the "downward facing dog" position. I understand your dive towards the ground, pulling your torso through and arching your back until your hips are on the ground. My question is the negative, "up" portion of the rep - does your shoulders and torso follow the same path as along the way down, e.g. you're using your arms to push yourself back up to the start posistion, or do you simply tense the abdominals to move your hips back up into the air???

Ford Prefect
01-13-2003, 02:41 PM
You simply lift you butt back into starting position. Going through the whole motion backwards to the start is called a dive-bomber push-up.

fa_jing
01-15-2003, 01:15 PM
Thanks, Ford. Just to be clear, Hindu pushups not exactly the same as the dive-bomber pushup, in the back-to-starting-position portion of the rep. I've tried it both ways, both seem to be useful but the Hindu pushups seems a little more serious somehow.

fa_jing
02-03-2003, 07:46 PM
I've hit a Eureka moment. It's that you can use the momentum of the downward portion to provide the energy to assist your upward rep. It completely betters the exercise as it is more dynamic and seems to hit more parts of your body.

Kempo Guy
02-04-2003, 09:10 AM
You'll find an explanation of divebombers (and Hindu pushups) here. (http://www.trainforstrength.com/ex-1.shtml)

KG

Ford Prefect
02-04-2003, 10:30 AM
Out of curiosity, has anyone ever seen this page?

http://escholarship.cdlib.org:8088/dynaxml/servlet/BookView?source=eschol/2709/2709.xml&style=eschol/xsl/dynaxml/dynaxml.xsl&chunk.id=ch05

fa_jing
02-04-2003, 11:05 AM
Kempo guy: nice site


Ford P : I've read through most of that site before, very interesting


Personally I am finding that I prefer the Hindu pushups to the Dive bombers.